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A Greek offer that cannot be refused

BENJAMIN ONG  |  THURSDAY, 2 JUL 2015
... refuses to deal... and financial markets remain nonchalant, i.e. small contagion at the most? What's Tsipras' Plan B? Whoopsie! Sorry about that for he already has a Plan B - litigate the beejesus out of 'em. "The Athens government has insisted that ...

A win-win currency war?

BENJAMIN ONG  |  WEDNESDAY, 18 MAR 2015
Whoopsie, I just got caught sleeping behind the wheels (er, keyboard). I just found out that there's now a term for the current "patient"-induced volatility in the financial markets. Reuters called (past tense) it "patient panic" in its published article ...

The ECB can't make the horse drink

BENJAMIN ONG  |  WEDNESDAY, 24 SEP 2014
... deposit rate and targeted long-term refinancing operations (TLTRO) -- has not yet filtered through into the economy. Whoopsie, I mean worry. It's been nearly three months since the ECB first cut rates and went negative on the deposit rates in June (and ...

Catching the big wave

BENJAMIN ONG  |  THURSDAY, 27 FEB 2014
Whoopsie! No more free Chinese take-aways. Yeah, yeah, I know... I'm a day late and a yuan short in bringing to you the latest market moving event in the world's second biggest economy. And yes, I mentioned short because some speculators might be thinking ...

Blame it on the boogie

BENJAMIN ONG  |  FRIDAY, 14 FEB 2014
... crucified (again), I'm not pro-Tony nor Bill... just putting it out there that it's easier to criticise than implement (whoopsie, guilty your honour). Must be why Joey, is still stuck in Opposition mode. The bottom line is that yesterday's disappointing ...

The good, the good and the dollar-A

BENJAMIN ONG  |  TUESDAY, 23 JUL 2013
... million annualised rate in June and the Chicago Fed National Activity Index remained in negative territory last month. Whoopsie! Sorry, I should have typed "because of" weak reports. Fed taper is data dependent, remember? Then again, we'll still be getting ...

Is that a fiscal stimulus I smell?

BENJAMIN ONG  |  WEDNESDAY, 3 JUL 2013
... government did in the global financial crisis more successfully than any other advanced economy." Can't wait for my handouts. Whoopsie, fiscal stimulus to get the economy going again...with or without China.

RBA to raise rates in Wayne's world

BENJAMIN ONG  |  TUESDAY, 7 MAY 2013
... Australian "federal and state budgets will generate yearly combined deficits of at least $80 billion within a decade...". Whoopsie, the Grattan Institute must be feeling generous when it wrote the report for the financial headlines this morning are talking ...
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